Constituency
505. Serampore
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1967
IN-SERAMPORE
INC 44.5%won by 6.3%CPM 38.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 6.3%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- INC vote shareINC went from 48.4% to 44.5% of the vote here (−3.9%).
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 38.2% — it did not contest here in 1962.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.7% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 7.1% to 71.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,06,446
Turnout
71.3%
Valid votes
3,61,133
Margin
22,836
6.32%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1B. GHOSHIndian National Congress · INC1,60,66244.5%
- 2D. N. BHATTACHARYACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,37,82638.2%
- 3J. SENCommunist Party of India · CPI62,64517.3%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- −42.1%
- INC share
- 48.4% → 44.5%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 38.2%
- Turnout
- 64.2% → 71.3%